CDC: Flu now across U.S., hasn't peaked yet

Experts remind Americans there's still time to get vaccinated

11:50 PM,
Jan. 3, 2014

Written by

Elizabeth Weise
| USA Today

This year's flu season is now in full swing: People are beginning to be hospitalized and die because of the flu, which is in all parts of the country and "still on the up slope," public health experts say.

North Carolina had 13 deaths, according to the state's Department of Health and Human Services. Hidalgo County in Texas has had six deaths, and two people have died in Salt Lake City. Nationally six children have died, this week's report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.

The flu season began most heavily in the South but has now spread nationwide with cases increasing in ...